A couple of weeks ago we had a speaker come talk to us about downtown revitalization named Craig Scharton.
In his vision, he wants to make downtown Fresno the hot spot of all the cities in the valley. He is helping us out because we are working on our mural project, which involves the history of Fresno, architecture, and revitalization. Personally, I would love to see it get more popular and if we increase the night life here a lot more people would come. Craig wants to put more night clubs and restaurants in downtown Fresno. If he succeeds at this more people would stay here in Fresno instead of leaving. In doing so, once there are more people here, we could conserve what we have, instead of moving to places and taking over. We could be eco friendly and make downtown bigger. I would love to see that. Another thing that Craig wants is to, basically, make you fall in love with downtown Fresno; always have something nice around every corner of the city. I love it already, as it is, because of the bigger buildings, more space, and because there is more activity going on there than anywhere else. Craig also said something about cleaning up the graffiti here in Fresno because it makes it look "dangerous". Personally, I think it gives it character and it shows people that visit that aren’t from here, that we have a lot of artists and an artistic culture here in Fresno. Anyway, I support what Craig Scharton does and what he wants to do and I think it would be for the better.
-Bruno Gonzalez
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